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Ian Hislop and Jan Etherington talk to Kate Saunders about the books they love.

4 Extra Debut. Ian Hislop, Jan Etherington and Kate Saunders on books by WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman, Roger Deakin and Patrick Dennis. From 2011.

Kate Saunders and her guests - Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye and star of BBC TV's Have I Got News For You, and Jan Etherington, writer of comedies like Next of Kin, and Second Thoughts - discuss favourite books by WC Sellar & R.J Yeatman, Roger Deakin and Patrick Dennis.

1066 and All That by WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman 
Publisher: Methuen 

Waterlog by Roger Deakin 
Publisher: Vintage 

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis 
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.

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